Published: Sunday, July 13, 2014 at 12:09 AM.

PINEHURST — It’s too soon to push the U.S. Golf Association on whether it’s interested in attempting a repeat of the history that took place last month at Pinehurst No. 2.

But coming out of contesting the U.S. Open and the U.S. Women’s Open on the same course on back-to-back weeks, there appears to be few roadblocks to trying it again.

“If you let me write a script about how I would dream it would go, that’s how it went,” said Dan Burton, the chairman of the USGA championship committee. “I think we achieved every objective we could have possibly set out to enumerate.”

The men played the course for the championship for the third time. It was the first time for the U.S. Women’s Open at the venue.

Putting on the tournaments in consecutive weeks on the same layout was deemed to be a significant undertaking. The unprecedented concept meant all sorts of evaluations and critiques.

USGA officials came away entirely pleased.

“I think it was a great learning experience for us,” said Mike Davis, the executive director of the USGA. “I think Pinehurst just could not have been a better host. … They nailed it.

PINEHURST — It’s too soon to push the U.S. Golf Association on whether it’s interested in attempting a repeat of the history that took place last month at Pinehurst No. 2.

But coming out of contesting the U.S. Open and the U.S. Women’s Open on the same course on back-to-back weeks, there appears to be few roadblocks to trying it again.

“If you let me write a script about how I would dream it would go, that’s how it went,” said Dan Burton, the chairman of the USGA championship committee. “I think we achieved every objective we could have possibly set out to enumerate.”

The men played the course for the championship for the third time. It was the first time for the U.S. Women’s Open at the venue.

Putting on the tournaments in consecutive weeks on the same layout was deemed to be a significant undertaking. The unprecedented concept meant all sorts of evaluations and critiques.

USGA officials came away entirely pleased.

“I think it was a great learning experience for us,” said Mike Davis, the executive director of the USGA. “I think Pinehurst just could not have been a better host. … They nailed it.

“You’d be hard-pressed to find a better place. First of all, you’ve got a great ownership and (a) group here that is willing to do it. They just bend over backwards.”

A restoration of the famed Donald Ross-designed course had golf analysts intrigued at times by the different appearance for these championships.

Instead of a cast of full green, brown became the dominant color.

“There are a lot of people that love this look,” Davis said. “And there are some people that don’t like this look. That’s OK.”

Women’s champion Michelle Wie said that worked out fine.

“The greens were in perfect condition,” Wie said. “I think that the fairways were definitely brown, but that’s definitely how the USGA wanted to play this golf course.”

USGA officials were anxious about how weather conditions across a two-week period would impact the course.

“When I look back on this, one of the things I’m going to remember is — and I remember this about 1999 and 2005 (at this site) as well — is just how fortunate we were with the weather,” Davis said.

He said that was limited to the one suspension during the women’s tournament. But because the weather allowed USGA officials to control the course conditions, that was part of the formula that allowed this to be deemed a success.

Heading into the fortnight, the idea was to leave parts of the venue alone. That’s considered very much unlike the USGA way.

“One of the things that’s fascinating is we didn’t touch that natural area at all,” Davis said. “That’s not the case if we go to other places with rough.”

Martin Kaymer’s runaway victory for the men’s title and Wie’s success in the women’s tournament for her first major championship gave the Pinehurst No. 2 experiment some defining moments.

“It played just the way we wanted it to play, the way the architects wanted it to play,” Davis said. “The feedback I got from both the men and the women, they loved how it played. It gave them options. They could be creative.”

The idea of contesting these tournaments in such a matter was, in part, to give more exposure to women’s golf. It was also a means for comparisons.

“We wanted a chance to learn a little bit more about how we compare men’s and women’s golf,” Davis said.

Though leading up to the tournament some of the female golfers had expressed apprehensions, they seemed overwhelmed with the positive treatment regarding their marque event.

“Just the fact that I can be part of that history, it’s just so cool,” Wie said. “I think it’s a great idea. I hope they do it more often.”

That won’t come without adjustments.

Dates for the U.S. Women’s Open have often floated around the calendar. That’s soon to change with “permanent” slots that will come before the men’s tournament, beginning in 2018. July tournaments are set for the next three years for the U.S. Women’s Open.

“I don’t think that precludes us maybe every once in a while, once we sit back and evaluate this and see what they think,” Burton said of revisiting the doubleheader concept that became so well-received in Pinehurst. “It won’t be a regular thing if we do this.”

Sites have been selected for the men’s tournaments through 2021. So a repeat of this twinbill is at least eight years away.

In the meantime, USGA officials can marvel about what they deemed a resounding success.

“There just aren’t words to described how grateful we are to all the people that made this historic, historic moment happen,” Burton said. “And we are just off-the-charts thrilled.”